On: French workers protest plan to increase retirement age

[rahen]

As a French, I have absolutely no trust in the government to manage my pension. And no desire to hand them that power either.

But as usual they'll fight tooth and nail to keep their monopoly, as they like us to depend on them as much as possible.

[ur-whale → rahen]

Vote with your feet (i.e: walk away from it all), it's the only option.

[rahen → ur-whale]

Yes, that's what I've done for about a decade now, and apparently more and more people do as well (abstention is record high).

The thing is I distrust big corporations almost as much as I distrust big government, but at least, it's easier to move to a different company when one of them really sucks, provided there's a bit of competition.

With governments, there's no such thing, you're stuck with them for 5 years, and their power only keeps growing.

The French gov, like most others, basically only seeks more money and power over society. Whatever the ruling party.

[ur-whale → rahen]

> With governments, there's no such thing, you're stuck with them for 5 years

There are many other countries on Earth.

Many of them measurably better than France on very many dimensions.

Go give them your hard earned tax money instead of wasting it on a lost cause.

[flashfaffe2 → ur-whale]

What I personally did but very hard to convince others to follow that way...